Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a mans.

C.S. Lewis

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Salman Rushdie

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

Eliot Spitzer

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Oscar Wilde

Talent is only the starting point.

Irving Berlin

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.

Jeff Ross

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Ellie Katz

...the antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.

David Hewson

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

Joel Hodgson